Today in Chickamauga History - June 24

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Today in Chickamauga History - June 24

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1834, June 24: – John Walker, Jr. (Sequaneyoho), one of the leading advocates of Removal, is   by James Foreman and his half-brother Anderson Springston on the road from Spring Place while returning home from a meeting of the National Council.  This assassination marks the beginning of the First Cherokee Civil War, which lasts for two years with the death rate averaging one per week.

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1839, June 24:  The Cherokee Registry” Emigration from Georgia – Headquarters, Indian Department Western Division. Fort Gibson - Dear Sir: A number of friends of Messrs Ridge and Boudinot are here. I have advised them of your desire to have a full investigation of the late murders committed in your nation. This, they declare, is all they desire; and they have requested me to say to you that they expect that you will take immediate measures to have the murderers apprehended and brought to trial, agreeably to the laws of the Cherokee Nation (Chickamauga). Justice to you requires that should state to you that they have informed me that they have heard that some of the murderers are now at your house. If this is the case, I must believe that you are not apprised of the fact; and if, on inquiry, the report made to me on this subject is correct, the troops sent out will take charge of them if turned over, and convey them in safely to this post. i hope you will avail yourself of the opportunity of the command to visit this post, as I expect the chiefs named to you in my letter of the 23rd ultimately will be here this evening or early tomorrow morning.
I am, sir, with much respect, your obedient servant.
M. Arbuckle,
Brevet Brig. General, U. S. A.
John Ross, Esq.
Principal Chief of the Emigrant Cherokees, Illinois.”

Chief Ross on account of the disturbed condition of affairs which caused bodies of men to congregate for protection or reprisal, both among the eastern and western Cherokees (Chickamauga), refused to attend the proposed meeting at Fort Gibson except that he be allowed to bring a large body guard of emigrant Cherokees with him. - https://cherokeeregistry.com/the-emigration-from-georgia-trail-of-tears/

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